Help Father Joe served more than 1.7 million meals in 2011. To help beat that number in 2012, Father Joe’s is hosting a Thanksgiving Day 5K event Thursday, Nov. 24 at 8 a.m. in Balboa Park. Event T-shirts can be picked up at Spreckels Organ Pavilion Wednesday, Nov. 23 2-6 p.m. or Thanksgiving morning from…
The blind date has never lost its popularity. With my family, it was to make me happy with a nice young woman; later my friends assumed the unasked for obligation and tried to make me happy with a nice young man. Recently, the difference of being “young” has morphed into “young at heart.” I have…
Admit it – you’ve done some dumb things in your life. And now that you’ve admitted it, you can blame it on youth. It’s OK. You were a dumb kid. From the curfews broken, hearts broken, laws broken and the bones broken, you did a lot of things you can look back upon now that…
dvd of the week Paul Rudd has been in a string of broad, absurd comedies over the last five years that have made him a star but which have not been remotely insightful. Our Idiot Brother does not have the depth of a good Woody Allen or the painfully strong laughs of Judd Apatow’s best,…
Speaking as the 4 Friends, a collaboration of San Diego’s AIDS Service Organizations, after 30 years of fighting this fight, we should have something to say. Can we say that all who are living with HIV/AIDS has food to eat, medicine to heal, and a place to live? Can we say we have stopped infecting…
Full disclosure before we begin. I am not, nor have I ever been a trained theater critic. However, I have seen my fair share of shows in the West End, on/off Broadway and locally, and as a professional art critic, I can distinguish something truly amazing from something that makes me want to leave at…
Smurfs star Neil Patrick Harris and his partner, actor turned chef David Burtka, have denied they are the perfect role models for a gay couple. Speaking to E!Online at the recent 40th anniversary gala of the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center Harris said, “We’re super happy to lead by example, but even to define ourselves…
Olivier Award-winning playwright Katori Hall is featured in a new video from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) as part of its Americans for Marriage Equality campaign. In the web ad, Hall confidently explains, “Over time, equality wins – that’s the beauty of America.” Hall is a playwright and performer from Memphis, Tenn. and is perhaps…
If I had to guess where most of us might be on Friday, Nov. 25, here’s where I’d begin: One: With family in one of those freezing cold states east of California. Two: Stuck at the airport. Three: Lying on the sofa in a tryptophan stupor, or Four: Beating other shoppers away with a stick…
